Monday, May 10, 2010

Traditional English Pudding

The April 2010 Daring Bakers’ challenge was hosted by Esther of The Lilac Kitchen. She challenged everyone to make a traditional British pudding using, if possible, a very traditional British ingredient: suet.

I was kinda weirded out by the suet. Yes, yes, I know that I'm Chinese and have eaten way worse things than suet, but for some reason or another, I was not interested in using it in baking. Go figure why my brain can't comprehend this.

Anyways, steaming is no new thing to me since I've made many-a-Char Siu Bao in my day, but since this pudding goes into a deep bowl, I couldn't break out my bamboo steamer. I just used a pot of water and put some forks in the bottom of the pot and put the bowl on the forks. I actually didn't really like the end product since it had a bit of a grainy texture and didn't really taste like anything. I think I'm going to have to redo it and try out some other flavor combos. But until then, here's my traditional English Pudding with bananas and butterscotch.

Banana and Butterscotch

Yes, the bananas turned kinda pink in the process.
Still tasted good though. Yum!